2018 December Markham Skeet and Trap

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 9 Issue 12 DECEMBER 2018

Bud Wolfe Classic December 29th Trapshoot December 23rd Skeet Shoot January 5th 1

December 2018

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2018 OFFICERS

Club News - Magazine Review FIOCCHI CUP AND THE GUN COLLECTION

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NFL Disabled American Veter- 14-15 ans Charity Shoot

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PRESIDENT—Vacant

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VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant

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TREASURER—Vacant

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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

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RECORDING SECRETARY—Vacant

DIRECTORS:

Calender of Events

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Club Calender

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Palm Beach Trap/Skeet Pro Shop—Sporting Calender Inside issue: Sportingthis Clays Program and Results Skeet Program and Results

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Contact info:

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Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays

FSA Skeet Calender

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Trap Program

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Trap Results

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Youth Program

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Next General Meeting Thursday January 3rd Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News Weather has finally cooled and the first snowbirds are starting to show. The Skeet shoot last month saw 8 shooters blasting at 1,200 targets. Hector Marrero had a career day sweeping all 5 events! In the 12 gauge event John Pilch recorded his first 25 straight in registered shooting, finishing with a 48x50 for the event. Congrats, John!

In Trap last month 14 shooters registered 2,200 targets. FTA Hall of Famer, Angel Estevez led the Singles with a lone 96 one target over Runner-Up Journey Garcia. Journey came back in the Handicap with a lone 96 three targets over Runner-Up Dax Demena. My fellow former Illinoian, Tony Marucco led the Doubles event with a lone 84.

The Richard Merritt Memorial saw 55 Sporting Clays shooters participate in this annual event.

Luis Herrara led all shooters by two with a lone 92. Scott Cobb and Alex Riera followed closely behind with matching 90’s. At-

tendance was down a little for this shoot, plan to attend the Bud Wolfe Classic. This is our star event of the year. Barbeque will be served for lunch, belt buckles and ammo will be awared to Class and Category winners.

The Youth Program saw over a dozen new shooters participate for the first time during the month!

The beginner’s field saw 14-16 shooters every Monday night in November. For the first time in over a year we had two beginner fields going.

Thanks again to my coaching partner Ramiro. Great job!

I have some more updates on the Palm Beach Club next month. New pictures and the latest news from the FWC. I visited the new gun show at the Armory in Miramar. Nice venue and everyone seems to enjoy the event. The promoters sponsor shows all over South Florida. Visit their website at www.floridagunexpo.com.

See you at the club!

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – December 2018 I always believed more in the philosophical approach to the mental game than the psychological approach but there are things you can take from the other approach that make good sense. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. gives us a Lanny Bassham lesson on why the psychological aspect of the mental game works.

Posture is a big deal. You may not feel confident but assuming a confident posture sometimes adds that little push you need to stay away from negative thoughts.

Keeping on the “bright side of life” to quote Monty Python is important if you want to prevent doubts and fears from leaking into your mental game.

Michael goes through a great deal of psycho babble that is interesting to a science geek like me but doesn’t help anyone in need of an answer. I like his longwinded explanations on why we need to do something and the scientifically proven reason why. Bottom line however, give the solution and keep the reasoning to a minimum. Deflect all negative thoughts and stand up straight, fake it till you make it! Act confident and you just may convince yourself you are.

I don’t do reviews on basic stuff. Mark H. Taylor wrote a very basic article on patterning a gun. I’m not saying it isn’t good, I’m saying it is very rudimentary. If you want an Elementary School explanation of gun patterning and whether you should do it, give his article a few minutes of your time.

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Magazine Review Trap & Field – 2018 November Now is the off-season for most of the shooting sports, except in Florida. Now is our prep for the fast and furious shooting in February, March, and April. For the nation however, now is the time to reflect on the shooting year and to plan for the 2019 season. Bob Palmer provides his six step mental plan in the form of a recipe for the upcoming season. Find the memories of the past season where the target was in full clarity, moving to it was easy, and you didn’t have to think to break the target. Reflect on those moments and recall as much as you can about your posture (yes, it’s a theme for the month), how you felt physically, and how you felt emotionally. Were you energized or were you above the thrall of the competition? Think on this and pick out the feelings that were strongest, so you can use them in the upcoming season.

December 2018 I always enjoy the reporting of events in this magazine. They cover all the big shoots and seem to amplify the glamor of our shooting sports. If you like reading about the big shoots I recommend this magazine over all others.

Dana Farrell did a nice piece interviewing Andy Duffy. I enjoyed it and you may too.

Bruce Buck gives some good ideas on buying a used shotgun. Also, a recommended read.

The next step is a Palmer specialty, use imagery to its fullest. Practice, using your mental experience from this season, and adjust as the new season progresses. Test variations to your mental game, adding, adjusting, and eliminating until you get the best recipe for you. When the recipe is finalized, use it and have faith in it. Done correctly, your confidence will be at just the right simmer when you need it.

I don’t review reloading articles, but if you are interested in these, Ian Darroch has some ideas for you in this month’s magazine.

ClayShootingUSA – November-

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SHOOTING SPORTSMAN – 2018 November-December

I am a faithful reader of this 1%er magazine. This is what life would be like if I won the LOTTO. So many beautiful guns and places to shoot.

One of my favorite magazines, for sure.

This month Tom Roster, the technical shotshell guru as far as the science of ballistics is concerned, makes some statements for the waterfowlers of the world. Velocities exceeding 1400 fps do not have any more lethality than the ones at 1300. In fact, pattern quality diminishes above 1425.

Recoil is also much worse beyond 1425. His research also shows that the effectiveness at 50 yards is not enhanced by shooting 3 ½” shells. Stick to 1 ¼ to 1 3/8 ounce loads. Finally, don’t use full or IM chokes with steel shot. Modified chokes are the way to go if you don’t want to damage the tube or your barrels.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – 2018 November Is there a perfect balance between having fun and taking your registered shooting too seriously? John Shima believes there is and we can find one that allows us to have fun and pay heed to the serious attention we need to perform at our best. Although John has this belief his article doesn’t provide us with a codified solution. If there is one, it’s a complicated mix of personality, purpose, and perspective requiring a balance that brings the best of all three traits to the fore. Too lighthearted and our ability to concentrate fully is impaired. Too serious and we become frustrated and stressed by unreasonable expectations.

I think his best advice is to develop a “sense of purpose”. Breaking a target is nice but knowing you couldn’t have broken it more perfectly is the ultimate satisfaction. I realize some people may never achieve that level of perfection, yet it doesn’t mean you can’t meet it at some level. Everyone has certain presentations they love to see on a course or on a trap or skeet field. These are the targets we cream every time we shoot them. Do some self-examination and find out why you can dominate these targets then expand this to similar presentations

and add them to your list of “conquered” targets. Eventually that list will grow until it covers most every possibility.

Paul Giambrone III says he starts every skeet season by shooting each skeet target 100 times. There are 16 different skeet presentations, if you exclude the doubles.

He shoots 100 practice targets for each presentation until he feels he can break each one perfectly. How many of these do you truly know how to break perfectly? In theory there are 15 main trap targets (3 on each Post) to master. Can you say you can break each perfectly?

You could do the same with sporting.

Pick 15 common presentations and practice them until you master them. Know those 15 and the rest will fall into place.

John is right. Have a purpose to your shooting. Shooting with a purpose gives your conscious mind something to concentrate on. Give it a specific focus. Concentrate on the target and as John always advises, watch the target break. The fun is in breaking targets, apply your concentration correctly and the pressure of competition is eliminated. Do that and the score will take care of itself.

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Gil and Vicki Ash speak up on two subjects this month. Their first topic is transitioning to the second target in a pair. Clayton M. Rue also chimes in on this subject in a later article with basically the same advice. After firing on the first target, start your gun moving to the hold point you picked out for the second target while at the same time moving your eyes to the second target.

Immediately start moving and start looking for the second target after shooting the first target.

Also, hit the first target at the same breakpoint each time. If you shoot the first target at the same spot each time the second target will be in the same spot each time.

This works whether you are shooting trap, skeet, or sporting clays doubles. Break the first target in the same spot each time and the second target will be in the same spot each time. You should be attempting to make every pair look like the first.

They don’t mention shooting trap or skeet doubles to practice transitioning between targets, but they should. They do however recommend shooting singles, then shooting the largest remaining piece to practice the transition. I am a big advocate of shooting pieces ever since I watched the guys on the U.S. Marksmanship team shooting pieces during the International Event at the Grand. Shooting pieces teaches a shooter how to truly handle their shotgun, how to stay in the shot, looking for the largest piece, then taking the shot.

The second area Gil and Vicki talked about concerns learning how to move, mount, and shoot flawlessly on single targets. Building perfect fundamentals is an absolute requirement before you can expect to break pairs. This is also where they suggest shooting pieces to perfect the transition.

Work on breaking flawless singles then go after any remaining pieces. Oddly they suggest shooting “crow-type” targets at 35 yards with a skeet choke so you have large visible pieces to shoot.

Good luck with that! I suggest an IC choke followed by the same modified choke they suggest.

I started using one of John Shima’s drills recently

to practice my move, mount, and shoot. He strongly advocates shooting an incomers drill on a regular basis. This is shooting low-house targets only on 1-4 then switching to high-house targets on 4-7. I usually shoot two low-house targets on 1 then shoot 4 incomers on 2-6 and finish with two high-houses on 7. Why this drill? The incoming targets are easy to get hard focus on and to groove a smooth mount and shot. Try it sometime and see what I mean. The targets are easy to focus on without any thought of the barrel. Hard focus, move, mount, and shoot. To vary this drill, stand back on the walkway behind the Posts to add distance to the targets.

One solid piece of advice somewhat lost in the article is pacing between pairs. Don’t rush and don’t take too long. Don Currie would have us rehearse the pair three times in our head before calling for each pair while others advise visualizing the pair at least once. Visualize the pair as you just shot it, if the first pair was broken successfully. Remember, always repeat breaking the pair in the same spots each time. I can’t tell you how many times I have coached in the Young Guns program, watching a student break two perfect pairs in a row and for some inexplicable reason they change how they shoot the third pair and miss in the process.

Stick with what works and keep the breakpoints the same for each pair!

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Magazine Review Clayton M. Rue relates a story this month of a student who stopped his gun after shooting the first target then moved his eyes in search of the second bird. Once he found it, he started his gun moving again towards the second bird. This is not the way to shoot a true pair at any clay target game or when hunting. Clayton says break the first target then skedaddle over to the preselected second hold point where you wait for the second target to “magically” (his words) appear in front of your muzzles.

This is his rule of Z where you move in three straight lines. The first line is to the first target, the second line is to the second target hold-point, and the third line is to the second target.

Pick a landmark for your second target holdpoint making sure it is below its line-offlight.

Visualize the shot sequence, rehearsing it in your mind.

Personally, I cannot endorse this methodology. I understand the moving to the second

John Pilch recorded his first 25 straight in Registered Skeet during the November Tournament. Nice shooting, John!

hold point after the first shot for some targets but, this wouldn’t feel very athletic.

When I move to a second target my eyes are ranging ahead of the gun looking for the second bird. The second hold point is more of an idea as to where my second target’s insertion point will be. I’m looking for that point where I’m going engage the second bird which means my gun never stops moving. To move to a hold-point first then to try to engage the target visually just feels wrong to me. Try both and decide for yourself.

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How many times have you gone into a Station with no plan and had to fix each target at the breakpoint. Gil and Vicki are religious about their pre-shot visualization of the shot and they have a good point. If you don’t plan your shot, you may have to fix it in the last 15% of your move. The important part of each shot is the last 15%. This is the whole point of visualizing the shot, getting that last 15% solidly worked out in your mind. Leave no indecision lying around for your conscious to create doubts. Decide, visualize and execute the shot as you planned it.

Gil and Vicki can’t help themselves and are compelled to throw out references. This time it is Marriott and Nilsson, two top rated golf coaches.

They do this in reference to random and blocked practice. Gil and Vicki quote the Be A Player book by Marriott and Nilsson where they explain there is no world where you can be perfectly consistent. Practicing the same shot over and over again in blocked practice isn’t necessarily the best move. Every shot is unique and no swing can be perfectly replicated. That doesn’t mean the swings won’t feel and look close enough to be virtually identical. Again, we fall back on the final 15% of the shot. At the point where the rubber meets the road, when you insert on the target, this is where visual consistency is what’s important. Something they don’t mention, by the way.

What Gil and Vicki don’t mention is that in their book Every Shot Must Have A Purpose, Marriott and Nilsson relate how a golfer shouldn’t hit ball after ball with the same club, trying to groove their consistency. What they should be doing is hitting with one club, aiming at different spots on the driving range and trying to hit them by varying the speed and deflection of the club face.

Learning how to hit to distance, fade, draw, are what should be part of a practice session. Learning how to utilize the club to its full potential.

The consistency will come faster this way than simple blocked practice, hitting 100 golf balls with the 3 Iron trying to drop the ball at the 180

yard marker. I was never much of a golfer and 180 was always my limit with the 3 Iron.

How does this relate to clay shooting? Go back to shooting those pieces. Learning how to break pieces is like aiming at different spots on the driving range with your club. Many sporting clays presentations can have several breakpoints, practicing five or six targets at each breakpoint is the same idea. In fact, shooting a target at a breakpoint you don’t like is always a good idea. I don’t like crossing targets to get past me, I practice them because of that fact. Pick breakpoints you aren’t comfortable with and really learn to use one of those spots to your advantage.

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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.�

Abraham Lincoln

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Calender of events: Gun Shows: November 1718h Ft. Lauderdale War Memorial Aud.

Dick’s: They are running specials every other week. Watch the papers and check out their website.

Skeet this month: Markham

Jan. 5th

Trail

Dec. 8-9th

Port Malabar

Dec. 28-30th

So. FL

Dec. 29th

Trap this month: Indian River

Jan. 6th

South Florida

Dec. 8th

Gulf Coast

Dec. 13th

Markham

Dec. 23rd

Sporting This month: Quail Creek

Jan. 2nd

Gulf Coast Clays Dec. 16th South Florida

Dec. 14-16th

OK Corral

Dec. 22th

Okeechobee

Dec. 29th

Markham

Dec. 29th

Current shell specials: Walmart: Currently selling Winchester Universal and Federal 4 packs at $21.74 (12 & 20 ga.).

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

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2018 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments

Date

Tournament

Saturday - Jan 20, 2018

Snow Bird Open

Sunday - Feb 4, 2018

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

Sunday - Mar 18, 2018

St. Patrick's Day Open

Saturday - Apr 15, 2018

Spring Blast

Sunday - May 20, 2018

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 23, 2018

15th Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 14, 2018

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday - Aug 12, 2018

Summers End Open

Sunday - Oct. 14, 2018

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday—Nov. 4, 2018

Richard Merritt Memorial

Saturday—Dec 29, 2018

Bud Wolfe Classic

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Ernest Hemingway

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

BUD WOLFE CLASSIC 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SATURDAY DECEMBER 29TH Registration: Opens 8:30 a.m. and will close at 10:00 a.m.

All scorecards must be turned in by 1:00 p.m. in order to be posted.

Entry Fee: $80 N.S.C.A., $80 Hunter, $40.00 SubJunior, Junior No Scorers or Trappers will be provided.

Shooters will be asked to squad themselves into groups of at least 4 and designate a field judge to verify scores for the squad.

Lunch will be served.

COURSE RULES: All shooters and spectators are required to wear ear and eye protection on the course.

MAXIMUM LOADS PERMITTED: 12GA, 3 DR EQ, 1 1/8 oz. Shot 7 1/2.

For additional information contact: Cary Keshen (954) 536-7146 email: ckeshen@bellsouth.net For Tournament Schedules and Shoot Results Please Visit Our Website: www.markhamsportingclays.org

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS

CONCURRENTS LADY CH ANN LITTLE LADY RU MELINDA BASS VET CH ALEX REIRA VET RU JEFF ANGELO SR SUPER VET CH JOE FORDHAM SR SUPER VET RU MELINDA BASS SUPER VET CH ROCKY LONG SUPER VET RU W.T. MUIR HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN HUNTER RU CHRIS WEINGARTNER HUNTER 3RD MEL MARANGOS

RICHARD MERRITT MEMORIAL HOA 55 ENTRANTS CH LUIS HERRERA RU SCOTT COBB M1 ALEX REIRA M2 ROLLINS BROWN M3 JEFF ANGELO AA1 ROCKY LONG A1 RAMON RITTER A2 ANATOLY KOVYARENKO A3 ROBER HOSLER B1 BILL WEINGARTNER B2 GLENN CRAWFORD B3 RON SCHYKO C1 ANDRES CAMPOS C2 ASIF SHEERAHAMED C3 ANN LITTLE D1 CARY KESHAN D2 JOEL BUENO D3 WAYNE AMRITT E1 DWIGHT HYOTTE E2 CHRIS WEINGARTNER E3 HENRY BERNSTEIN

92 90 90 88 87 87 82 81 78 81 80 68 78 78 70 79 75 70 79 65 62

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MONTHLY SKEET PROGRAM Price per 50 targets includes $5/100 NSSA/FSA Fee

.410 gauge 28 gauge 20 gauge 12 gauge Doubles

50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets

$20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00

Shoots usually held the first Saturday of every month.

Gauges may be shot out of sequence with the permission of management. More than one 50 target program may be shot in the same gauge as a preliminary event.

AWARDS Break a 50, 75, or 100 Straight and get one of these guaranteed awards!

50 Straight Kennedy Half Dollar 75 Straight Eisenhower Dollar 100 Straight Morgan Silver Dollar 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 24

Skeet Results

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln

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Trap Program Trap Program: SPECIAL NOTICE

Trap Tournaments are usually the fourth Sunday of the month.

100 target 16 Yd, Hdcp and Doubles events.

First 100 targets. $40.00 (Includes ATA and FTA daily fees)

ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2018-2019 September 23th October 28th November 25th December 23rd

Subsequent 100 target events. $32.00 See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278

January 27th February 24th March 31st April 28th May 26th June 23rd July 28th

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IS STILL POPULAR WITH THE SHOOTERS. SIGN UP WITH STEVE NORRIS AND THE REST OF THE REGULARS AND TRY YOUR SKILL AND LUCK AT ALL THE GAMES.

Come out and join the fun!

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TRAP RESULTS

16 Yards

SINGLES ANGEL ESTEVEZ JOURNEY GARCIA DAX DEMENA KEN BOYCE DAMIAN CRELLER GREGORY VANHOUTTEGHEM ALEX CHURNETSKI HENRY OVARES ED GREENE TONY MARUCCO GARY ROTHSTEIN SEBASTIAN COPPOLA PABLO GONZALEZ

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Handicap HANDICAP JOURNEY GARCIA DAX DEMENA ANGEL ESTEVEZ STEVE NORRIS DAMIAN CRELLER

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JOURNEY GARCIA

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ANGEL ESTEVEZ

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Youth Program

November was on of the busiest month’s I ever recall for our program. We had 14 or more beginner shooters every Monday night. So many we had to split the beginning group in two and use two fields. Looking forward to continued success with the program going into the future!

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If you would like to sponsor our newsletter: contact me at: jloit@bellsouth.net Joe Loitz at 954-857-5278

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